Of course, you don't want to change the spellings of anything in the book. But a spell checker is going to flag most proper names and any made up words it finds. The only way to determine whether these are scannoes or what the author intended is to read the flagged word in context. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: candice To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:51 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question about spell check I've been atempting to spell check this book for like a half an hour, and most everything coming up is a proper name or a made up thing since it is a science fiction book. My question is if it's scanned in would it not ruin the author's intent by changing most spellings? For a 500 page science fiction book, am I spitting in to the wind? Candice